May you one day look out across the vast sea and have a glimpse of the smoke from the cooking fires rising from your homeland of your Ithaca. Or may you one day, after many wanderings and hardships, wake up on its shore surrounded by the many gifts you were given. But even on that shore, it’s fine to be suspicious and on guard.

The Lectures Mentioned:


The Odyssey of Homer by Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses on Audible. Lecture 2.

Books Mentioned:

 The Odyssey. by Homer. Robert Fagles translation.

The Power of the Myth. By Joseph Campbell

The War of Art. By Stephen Pressfield

Turning Pro. By Stephen Pressfield